But netgear routers are pretty famous for being compromised because they're not great about
being security paranoid and they don't aggressively provide updates (including to models long out of warranty).
But if you even doubt it, you need to factory reset and reflash things, and then rebuild up the configuration from scratch (do not use a backup config).
Ultimately whether it's related to work is speculative and not constructive, it could be, it might not be, but if you think it's compromised you need to be cleaning it.
This is where things get scary though, if your assumption is that anything on your local LAN was safe and nothing was password protected with non-default passwords - how can you now trust all the things on your network?
Possible link.
But netgear routers are pretty famous for being compromised because they're not great about
being security paranoid and they don't aggressively provide updates (including to models long out of warranty).
There's a general https://www.highspeedinternet.com/resources/how-to-fix-a-hacked-router is my router hacked article.
But if you even doubt it, you need to factory reset and reflash things, and then rebuild up the configuration from scratch (do not use a backup config).
Ultimately whether it's related to work is speculative and not constructive, it could be, it might not be, but if you think it's compromised you need to be cleaning it.
This is where things get scary though, if your assumption is that anything on your local LAN was safe and nothing was password protected with non-default passwords - how can you now trust all the things on your network?